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   Jamie Teh (jcsteh@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 05:34:26 JST Jamie Teh

   It is deeply exasperating to me that Apple continue to increasingly fuck accessibility of Apple Books, especially with braille. I'm currently reading a book to my son in the evenings. Here are just two of the bugs I have to deal with while trying to enjoy this with him, breaking the flow of my reading:
   1. When the page turns, often the cursor will jump to the bottom of the screen, so I have to jump to the top and down four elements to continue reading.
   2. Sometimes, the cursor randomly jumps to the start of the paragraph while I'm reading and continues to do this randomly every 30 seconds or so.
   "Why not use an alternative app?" you might ask. I would, but DRM means that i can't. And these fucking big profit-above-people companies wonder why people resort to piracy. Because apparently, when you pay for something, you actually get a shittier experience.

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     James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 05:34:26 JST James Scholes

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     @jcsteh The bugs affecting time/activities with loved ones are particularly devastating to me. My partner and I make daily use of the feature to share audio between two sets of AirPods. It's very special to us, but it would be difficult for me to concisely articulate the extent to which it is broken in iOS 17.

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     Andy (remixman@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 05:35:17 JST Andy

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     @jcsteh This is very true. Also, I don't understand why I can't just fucking pay $10 for an unprotected, DRM-free EPUB book and do whatever I want with it. Use it in whatever app I feel like. Make my own experience. DONE. END OF STORY. This shit hurts honest users.

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     Jamie Teh (jcsteh@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 05:36:12 JST Jamie Teh

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     • Kara Goldfinch
     • Darrell Hilliker 👨‍🦯♾️📡

     @darrell73 @KaraLG84 I kinda gave up reporting bugs to Apple a while ago because I put in a lot of time and effort to report details and then there's just radio silence. A bug often just gets closed as a duplicate of some other bug or something and then you can't see anything more. That's just an aspect of Apple's closed culture, but it's not something I'm personally willing to sink time into with no indication of any kind of return.

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     Darrell Hilliker 👨‍🦯♾️📡 (darrell73@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 05:36:15 JST Darrell Hilliker 👨‍🦯♾️📡

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     • Kara Goldfinch

     @KaraLG84 @jcsteh What has happened when these Braille issues have been reported to accessibility@apple.com? Does Apple ever provide any bug or case numbers to track?